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 120 JULIAN GRENFELL

The thundering Hne of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings ;

But Day shall clasp him with strong hands.

And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

— Julian Grenfell. Flanders, April, 1915.

Captain the Hon. Julian Henry Francis Grenfell, D.S.O., of the 1st (Royal) Dragoons, was wounded in the trenches in front of Ypres on May 13, and died in hospital at Boulogne on May 26, 1915. He was the eldest son of Lord Desborough, by whose consent the poem is here reprinted. Lord Desborough writes: "Not many men would have knocked out two professional boxers and written those verses in one week."

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